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The strange plot of Marcus Schrenker went wrong over Shelby County

But it started to go wrong in the sky over Shelby County
even before he bailed out of the cockpit.

It went wrong on the ground, in the swamp, on the road to
Harpersville.

It went wrong at almost every step, right up to the point
when federal agents found him Tuesday night in a tent,
moaning and bloody over a six-pack of Bud Light Lime.

"It's clear he was fleeing his life," said
Marty Keely, U.S. marshal for the Northern District of
Alabama. "He had a grandiose plan. He probably
considered it a perfect plan. But there is no perfect crime,
no perfect plan. It failed along the way."

Blown off course:

The dominoes that toppled the would-be D.B. Cooper included
Schrenker's landing his parachute jump off-course, his
plane crashing on land instead of at sea, and a series of
unfortunate encounters in Alabama - with a resident and then
Childersburg police - that forced him to improvise and then
stumble, authorities surmised.

"It ultimately failed when we apprehended him,"
Keely said.

Schrenker, a 38-year-old Indiana money manager who faced
mounting financial, legal and personal woes, was charged
Wednesday with faking a distress call from the air over
Alabama, then intentionally crashing his plane.

The Coast Guard said it spent $38,000 responding to the
fake distress call.

Though Schrenker already was charged this week with two
felony warrants in Indiana for continuing to act as a
financial adviser after his state license had lapsed, and
not telling clients about the lapse, Florida authorities
said Wednesday federal charges there would proceed first.

Schrenker is expected to appear before a federal
magistrate in Pensacola later this week. He remained in fair
condition at a Tallahassee hospital.

Keely, whose Gulf Coast Regional Task Force helped lead Schrenker's fugitive investigation, said authorities pinpointed his location Tuesday evening, but he wouldn't say how. He did say the capture didn't stem from a tip from someone at the campground....

The strange plot of Marcus Schrenker went wrong over Shelby County

But it started to go wrong in the sky over Shelby County
even before he bailed out of the cockpit.

It went wrong on the ground, in the swamp, on the road to
Harpersville.

It went wrong at almost every step, right up to the point
when federal agents found him Tuesday night in a tent,
moaning and bloody over a six-pack of Bud Light Lime.

"It's clear he was fleeing his life," said
Marty Keely, U.S. marshal for the Northern District of
Alabama. "He had a grandiose plan. He probably
considered it a perfect plan. But there is no perfect crime,
no perfect plan. It failed along the way."

Blown off course:

The dominoes that toppled the would-be D.B. Cooper included
Schrenker's landing his parachute jump off-course, his
plane crashing on land instead of at sea, and a series of
unfortunate encounters in Alabama - with a resident and then
Childersburg police - that forced him to improvise and then
stumble, authorities surmised.

"It ultimately failed when we apprehended him,"
Keely said.

Schrenker, a 38-year-old Indiana money manager who faced
mounting financial, legal and personal woes, was charged
Wednesday with faking a distress call from the air over
Alabama, then intentionally crashing his plane.

The Coast Guard said it spent $38,000 responding to the
fake distress call.

Though Schrenker already was charged this week with two
felony warrants in Indiana for continuing to act as a
financial adviser after his state license had lapsed, and
not telling clients about the lapse, Florida authorities
said Wednesday federal charges there would proceed first.

Schrenker is expected to appear before a federal
magistrate in Pensacola later this week. He remained in fair
condition at a Tallahassee hospital.

Keely, whose Gulf Coast Regional Task Force helped lead Schrenker's fugitive investigation, said authorities pinpointed his location Tuesday evening, but he wouldn't say how. He did say the capture didn't stem from a tip from someone at the campground....